Transit

One of the ways that the complete and utter dysfunctionality of the government of Myanmar can be seen is in their public transit. There are nowhere near enough buses. They're in horrible shape. People packed in like fish in a net. A mix of re-re-re-rebuilt 1940's Chevy army trucks, rebuilt 1980's Toyota vans, and other vehicular palimpsests. If you spend most of your time in transit in horrible vehicles, your quality of life will certainly suffer. In addition, the roads are really lousy. Four lanes, two in each direction, but only the two in the middle are really paved. Those are the routes between the cities. One exception is the road from Yangon to Pyay, because Ne Win, the original leader of the junta, grew up in Pyay.